Thursday, April 1, 2010

Le Bulle d'Encre presents its april stamp

Every month, the French Association du Bulle D'encre publishes a limited edition vanity stamp (using the French Post Office Mon Timbre A Moi service) featuring art by French cartoonists and comic creators. This month's stamp was created by Jason Dilukeba, creator of the new manga series, Ekeko.and features the illustration used for issue 1 of the book.

The stamp is published in a limited edition of 30 copies, and costs € 2,00. Previous stamps, are still available in very small numbers from the BDE website. Members get a € 0,50 on each stamp (all links in French).

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Why stamps and cartoons?

This blog exists to discuss cartoonists and postage stamps especially new issues and discoveries, and to promote collecting and trading topicals. Postage stamps featuring cartoonists are popular especially in Europe. Cartoonist is defined broadly includes comic book or strip artists, caricaturists, editorial cartoonists, animators and animation, or gag cartoonists. Postage stamp can include cinderellas or fake stamps.